Vacuum-cleaner handle



D. B. REPLOGLE.

VACUUM CLEANER HANDLE.

APPLICATION FILED IAJNE 23,1917.

. Patented May 4, 1920.

2 SHEETSSHEET ln. B. REPL OGLE.

VACUUM CLEANER HANDLE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 23, I917.

Patented May 4, 1920.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2 the; nozzle connecting'parn of 'the' :handle 7 l igs.

2 a partial front view,

vacuum cleaner, and

the detail shown in F1g. 10.;

UNITED STATES nanmnnnnson RErLoGLE, or BERKELEY, .cALIFomII K.

VACUUM-CLEANER HANDLE.

' Specificationo! Letters Patent.

Patented Ma 4,1920.

Continuation in part of ap ease Serial No. ao1,4o2,'1uea November 17, 1913. {rhis icaubn and u au, 1917; Serial n. 176,644. n

.hose pipe. is usually required. I

The present is sit-"continuation application whereof the original was filed as Serial Number 801,402 on Nov. 17 1913; and the particular objects of the present invention are to provide a suction pipe handle pivoted to the body of the cleaner, to provide flexible extensions of said handle and to generally increase their utility. I To these ends the invention consists of the construction and arrangement of parts as set iorth and illustrated in the drawings in which, i

Figures 1 to 6 show my invention as applied to an electrically operated cleaner, end'Figs. 7 13012 as applied to hand operated cleaners. Fig. 1 is a side view, Fig.

section on w:r of Fig. 1. Fig. l shows a slidable hose with cleaning tools assembled with a slidable section of the complete handle. Figs. 5 and 6 detail the deflector by which air flow is interchangeably'set through the handle or floor tool. 1

F5. wher e a handoperated. cleaner of bellows rigidly secured to the handle, and the combined bellows and-suction handle are hingedly connected tothe floortool'.

8 shows amethod ef attaching'my -im-' proved handle to a box type method bf doing. the same. 10 details shown in Fig. 9.- Fi .11is asection; of

enlarged perspective ,VIBIWI of the part of he air Fig. 3 is across 7 is a view'illustrating myinvention has a pair inlet as indicated". f In 'fioo'rxsweeping Fig, S an alternaterollers 12 Fig. 12 is an rotatable deflecting; "valve: shown in: 7 and 8. Designations of similar parts are by similar icharacters in the severalw jexteriorf knurled' rim by 5 In 'the drawings', 1 designates the main part of mytubular handle which maycarr'y a motor 2, fancase'3, connecting hose 4 and has a hinged joint made up of the pieces 5 and 6 secured a wing bolt 7 hingedly connecting the main parts of an electric cleaner. The hose 1 may connect to the conduit 8 by the coupling 9 and the mouthed floor tool 10 may have'supporting rollers 11, 11 supplementing'the supporting rollers A dust collector 12, 12 under the motor.

exhaust 13, its

may operably attach to the opposite end hanging from the hook 26.

the section 15 of the handle may be held from being pulled out of the main tube 1. The lower end of the section ;1,5;; may extend. well into the main tube,"'as to the dotted lines at 16 or to 16' and the outer end 17 of said section may be tapered to receive cleaning tools. A section or length of hose-pipe 15 carrying a suitable cleaning tool 15 is also telescoped into the seesome, while the are likewise telescoped into the main tube 1.

An air deflecting valve 18 mounted on a stem 19 and adapted to be turned by the wing 19' is pinioned to the conduit 8 so that when its upper tip is turned to the fancase 3,'asshown in full lines, in Fig. 5 air is brought from the floor; but when the upper tip is turned to 9 as shown-in dotted lines, air is brought from the handle. An electric cord carrying conductors 22 and 23 leading from the terminals 2 1 and 25 re spectively serves to conduct current to the motor 2 which drives a In the hand operated type of cleaner, Fig. '16, there is a smaller diameteredf main tube 1, and its outer end-1' ,may be curved, the hose-pipe 15 suction 'tool' 15 my invention shown in 10 connects with the valve 27 through the to operate 'yl the rollers 12 to a pivoted connection 38 ,011 the, bellows.

.the body 3'... i V he- 'ca'p'"18 when inipos tion presents an may be 'longer,-'and the should have a restrictedthis embodiment of Fig.7 the floort'ool' 100 section 4.0 of.,fiexib1e hose arranged'between which rollers are also arranged J 7 the beilows' 37- by means or ,a=f'- .gitma'n 39 extending from a crank carried (if 1105. The-cap -18 fits into a connection 'valve 27 leading to the interior"? I which it may be A f clamp 14 is attached to the tube 1wher'eby fan in the fancase 3.

turned. A tubular shank 28 having a side ort 28' and an end port 28" as shown in lg. 12 serves to control the air flow in the form shown in Fig. 8 as well as in the form shown in Fig. 7; but is not needed in the modification shown in Fig. 9. In the latter form, shown in Fig. 9, a curved chan nel plate 36 carrying a pad preferabl of rubber 35 and arranged transversely 0 the tion. A loop of the bail, in either case servesto make a solid connection with the shank. member at 29 and inwardl curved ends 34, 34 of the bailmake hinge connection with the bod 3. The bail 32 in the Fig. 9 formshoul be made ofa length and a width ample enoughto clear the rollers 12", 12".,-'so that the handle may be swung around under the bod bringing the pad 35 and the aperture 30 into operative relation to be'retained there by the force of gravity when the operator raises up the outer end of the handle 1. The bail 32 may also, however be readily unhooked by withdrawing the ends 34, 34, to make ad'ustments and readjustments. In the orm shown in Fig. 8, gravity would tend to break the operative connection of the handle gtherefore detents 33, 33 are arranged 'to hook over the bail 32 and hold it in posiyte tion, so that the operator supports the floor tool upwardly, throwing the weight on the rollers 12", 12" in order that they may the more effectively drive the vacuum producing means within the body 3, which means it 18 not necessary here to show, as they wonstitute no part of the improvement 'here shown. 1

dle 1, with or without the flexible extension 15 attached or inserted into it, is used for pushing the cleaner over the floor, applying the floor tool 10; but when desiring to use a hand manipulated suction tool as 15", the air current is first deflected through. the

handle instead of through the floor tool.

In the electric form this is done by'simply turning the deflector 18 to the position shown in dotted lines, while the motor is kept at work. But in the hand forms shown in Figs. 7 and 8, the valve cap 18' which for floor sweeping has its port 28' turned downward and connecting with a passagefrom the floor tool, is, for handle service, to be turned with the port 28' upward. This brings said port into operative connection with the interior passage of the handle, and in either position of the cap,

the port 28" leads air current with the dust content to a suitable collector not shown, but well understood in the art. Any arrangement of handle connections and valve manipulation, or air control that is desired maybe used, and many other details u be varied without departing from the spirit of the invention, which is claimed broadly as follows; 1;

1. A vacuum cleaner comprising --a sue tion-producing means, and a handle v;con-.

when the members are not used as a suction conduit.

3. A vacuum cleaner comprising a body. a suction-producing means therein,"a plurality of telescoping tubular members forming a suction conduit, means for hin edly 2 connected parts forming a suction connecting one of the members to the ody.

whereby the members constitute an operating handle for the vacuum cleaner when the members are not used as a suction con duit, and a valve at the juncture of the har dle members with the body. v x I 4. A suction conduit adapted to be used as a handle for a vacuum cleaner, compris ing three telescoping sections, the outer section being flexible and an intermediate see tion being stifi', a clamp on the end of an in termediate section arran ed to lock said sections in different positions and from being pulled out of each other, and means for hingedly connecting one of said sections to the body of said vacuum cleaner.

conduit operably connecting said suction tool to the vacuum producing means, a part of said conduit being a relatively lon rigid tube, and another part being a flexib e 'hOS.( telescopin within the rigid tube; the construction ein such'that the tube and hose afford a hancle which may be grasped in 'the operation thereof.

The foregoing specification signed. at

5. The combination with portable vacu-, I um producing means, of a suction tool, a

Washington, D. (1., this twenty-third day of June, 1917. 4 v

- DANIEL BENSON REPLOGLE.

In presence of JANE M. BARRF'LT, WILLIAM Fnmss. 

